Viewing the workload of vigilance through the lenses of the NASA-TLX and the MRQ

Human Factors

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1044-1063

  Finomore, Victor S ^a   Shaw, Tyler H ^b   Warm, Joel S ^a   Matthews, Gerald ^c   Boles, David B ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

mental workload; Multiple Resource Questionnaire; multiple resources; multitasking; NASA Task Load Index; simultaneous successive discriminations; stimulus presence absence; vigilance

Indexed keywords

LOAD INDEX; MENTAL WORKLOAD; MULTIPLE RESOURCES; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; SIMULTANEOUS/ SUCCESSIVE DISCRIMINATIONS; VIGILANCE;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MULTITASKING; SURVEYS;

NASA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890815480     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813484498     Document Type: Article

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